This just came to mind because I genuinely am just curious, but off the top of my head, 'if she bleeds' was never something that a predominantly white society practiced, not even the medieval period.
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One thing I was wondering, because arranged noble marriages for diplomatic purposes did come to mind—when a pair of very young (12-14, say) nobles "married" did they actually consummate the marriages immediately, or did they wait? Like how there are historical examples of extremely young "kings," but in practice those kings would have a regent ruling for them until they came of age.
It was common for such diplomatic or status marriages to have a clause forbidding ''consumation'' before age 16.
Probably depended quite a bit on how vital it was that they create an heir.
Beyond that though, I'm unsure. How much social pressure the young married couple would experience might be rather rooted in their culture, which can vary a bit from one European country to another on something like that.
Lawrence Gardner traces royal families lines back to biblical times. It was an end justifies the means issue. There are very good lectures on the tube. But, they're old, the video quality is yuck. But, LG died before better quality were made.
You're describing Mahammad.